Excavations 2017

This is a temporary blog for presenting the excavations of 2017 at Perdigões. Posts from 2011 to 2016 are still available.

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

0002 - Day 1

Naturally, the first day was dedicated to cleaning the space of last year intervention (inside and outside the survey area). We also enlarge it, using a machine to remove part of the upper sediments that were ploughed in 1996 (to a depth of 90 cm). As usually, lots of material was collected and in the area of the expected funerary structure those upper deposits had a lot of fragments of human burned bones.

The Spanish team from Madrid Complutense University that is collaborating in enclosures archaeoastronomic project involving also Perdigões was there too, starting to record data for the research on the orientation of the architecture of the enclosures.